PHOTOS | Advocates participating in the weeklong Give Us Shelter March are calling for Oregon to declare a state of emergency on housing
Advocating for a state of emergency to be declared on Oregon’s housing crisis, demonstrators set off from Portland on May 23 on a weeklong Give Us Shelter March.
Marchers were due to reach their final destination, the state Capitol in Salem, on Wednesday, May 29, and attend a meeting of the House Committee on Human Services and Housing.
In addition to a housing emergency, participants were calling for a stop to sweeps of homeless camps; water, trash and toilet services; self-governed communities; affordable housing for all; and an end to being targeted by police.
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